User talk:North Shoreman/Sandbox10

Nice start. You might find some useful facts and references in Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War#1860 election, November 6, 1860 to fall of Fort Sumter, April 14, 1861 and Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War#Aftermath 1861: Further secessions and divisions in particular. Some of the facts and references in the previous section(s) might be useful for the introduction/pre-secession events. Dr. Jensen and I worked on this a few years ago. Due to some frivolous objections, we added some additional sources. Also, we were forced to change some straightforward phrasing of straight facts to more awkward phrasing - if you see some entries that seem to be phrased oddly. Donner60 (talk) 03:55, 1 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thoughts

Need an Aftermath section to bring the story up to Fort Sumter and a bit beyond.

Gist letter and similar actions at coordination should maybe have its own section or combine with section on Commissioners and move ahead of the state by state analysis in the Lower South section. Tom (North Shoreman) (talk) 03:08, 10 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Separate section on divided South rather than as intro to Lower South. Clarify fire-eaters positions as longer lasting than the immediate causes -- focus on strategy. Varieties of nationalism -- southern nationalism among fireaters and conflicting (US and Southern) among opponents of immediate secession.Tom (North Shoreman) (talk) 03:14, 10 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]